Chapter 296 I am outside the game, I can see the divine machine clearly
After a while, in the silence, a sound was finally heard.
Zhuang Weisheng was the first to withdraw his gaze from the chessboard. He looked deeply at Yu Shao, then at Su Yiming, and turned away without saying a word.
Seeing Zhuang Weisheng leave, the people around him finally woke up from their dream.
They each withdrew their gazes from the chessboard, and like Zhuang Weisheng, they could not help but glance at Yu Shao and Su Yiming, and then left in silence one after another.
Lu Bo walked out of the game room and walked for a while on the corridor. For some reason, he suddenly stopped, looked at the heavy rain, and did not move forward.
When he first came to the game room this morning, his face was full of curiosity and anticipation, but now that the game was over, there was only a deep sense of heaviness on his face.
Da! Da! Da! The rain was pouring down, and the sound of raindrops falling was like the sound of chess pieces falling! Time passed by minute by minute.
After standing there for a long time, Lu Bo finally took another step and strode forward.
Inside the chess room, everyone had mixed feelings and left in silence, but a few people including Xu Zijin, Wu Zhixuan, Zheng Qin, etc. were still standing by the chess table, staring at the game.
Yu Shao stared at the chessboard in silence. After a moment, he stretched out his hand, pointed at a black piece on the chessboard, and said, "The problem... should be this move."
Su Yiming looked at the chessboard and looked at the black piece that Yu Shao was pointing at.
Yu Shao said, "Both the sticking and the tiger move seem to work here, but the tiger move can make the white pieces tighter, while the sticking move can make the white pieces less tight, giving the white pieces more room to play."
“Looking back, that’s exactly what happened.”
Su Yiming looked at the chessboard and nodded gently: "When the white chess piece swung its sword to kill the black chess piece on top, the black chess piece couldn't find a way to escape for a while. I didn't expect that your move would be a direct kill."
"But this move may be more powerful than the big jump."
Su Yiming changed the subject and pointed to a white piece on the chessboard, saying, "If we just group them together, the black pieces won't have much to use. In this chess situation, it will be more advantageous to kill them than to fight them."
Yu Shao looked at the chessboard, nodded slightly, and stretched out his hand again, pointing to the two small moves that made the game completely complicated, and asked: "These two small moves, you didn't come up with them on the spur of the moment, did you?"
"I have studied Xiao Fei after Point 33 and its subsequent changes, but there are too many branches and the changes are too complicated."
Su Yiming said as he placed the chess pieces: "The second move, Xiao Fei, was something I thought of on the spot. Although it looks like a dead end, I have a vague feeling that there is life hidden in this dead end."
Xu Zijin and others watched quietly as the two sides continued to review the chess pieces and discuss every move in the game. As long as any move was changed, the subsequent outcome of the game would be completely different.
Before on the chessboard, both sides wanted to kill each other at all costs, but at the end of this game, they told each other frankly how their opponents had used the killer moves to kill them.
In other words, the two sides reviewed the game so that the opponent's sword could pierce their throats in the next game...
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"Damn, this damn weather."
A young man in sportswear had just walked out of the game room where the Go Saint qualifiers were being held. Seeing the windy and rainy weather, he couldn't help cursing.
He just lost the game to his opponent by half a point, and not only did he lose the game, he also encountered such terrible weather. He didn't even bring an umbrella. He was so unlucky that even drinking cold water would get a toothache.
The weather in Jiangling is generally very good and very suitable for living. Storms like today's have not been seen for two or three years.
The young man took out his mobile phone and opened a taxi app. After waiting for three or four minutes, no driver accepted the order. So he switched to another taxi app. After waiting for a while, still no driver accepted the order.
"Damn north, can't even get a car?"
Although he had thought of this possibility, when he saw that he really couldn't get a taxi, the young man's already ugly expression suddenly became even uglier.
At this moment, the young man suddenly noticed that Zheng Qin was absent-mindedly walking towards him in the corridor not far ahead. Even though he was standing in front of Zheng Qin, Zheng Qin didn't seem to notice him.
"Zheng Qin, third dan?"
Seeing Zheng Qin like this, the young man was a little surprised and couldn't help but shout out.
Zheng Qin's thoughts were interrupted by the young man's voice. He finally raised his head and noticed the young man in front of him.
Zheng Qin had some impression of this young man. After all, they had played against each other several times. His rank seemed to be four dan. When he had just become a professional chess player, he had lost a game to him.
However, he met his opponent twice more later and won both games.
"Ying Guodong, fourth stage?"
Zheng Qin said somewhat uncertainly.
"Yes, it's me."
Ying Guodong nodded, his tone somewhat melancholy, and said: "I heard that you beat Feng Zhisong 8th Dan the day before yesterday, you are so strong."
"I remember when you first became a professional chess player, you were not my opponent. Now..."
Ying Guodong paused, a wry smile appeared on his face, and he said self-deprecatingly: "I am out of reach."
Ying Guodong had very complicated feelings towards Zheng Qin. After all, no one would feel good to see an opponent who was not as good as him at first, surpass him little by little until he was out of reach of him.
But now he has completely let it go, otherwise he would not have said this in front of Zheng Qin.
Hearing this, Zheng Qin was silent.
"That's right."
Ying Guodong suddenly remembered something, looked at Zheng Qin strangely, and asked, "You don't have a game today, why are you here at the chess academy?"
"I went to watch the captain selection competition between Yu Shao and Su Yiming." Zheng Qin replied.
"The captain selection competition between Yu Shao and Su Yiming?"
Ying Guodong suddenly realized what was going on and said, "I wanted to watch this game, but I had a match today, so I had to give up. How was it? What did they play?"
Hearing this, Zheng Qin couldn't help but think of the chess game just now, and the sound of the moves seemed to echo in his ears again.
Zheng Qin opened his mouth but didn't know what to say, so in the end he just said nothing.
"What's wrong?"
Seeing Zheng Qin like this, Ying Guodong looked puzzled and asked, "Who won?"
Zheng Qin suddenly let out a long breath and asked, "Do you have any cigarettes?"
"Cigarettes? You still smoke?"
Ying Guodong was a little puzzled, but he still took out a cigarette box from his trouser pocket, took out a cigarette and handed it to Zheng Qin, and then handed the lighter to Zheng Qin.
“I really don’t smoke very often.”
Zheng Qin lit the cigarette with a lighter, then returned the lighter to Ying Guodong. He then took a deep puff of smoke, exhaled slowly, and said, "But now I suddenly want to smoke one."
"What are you doing? Acting depressed?"
Ying Guodong smiled, took the lighter from Zheng Qin, lit a cigarette for himself, took a puff and exhaled the smoke, then asked, "So, how did the game go? Who won?"
Zheng Qin silently looked at the heavy rain outside the corridor and the gray world. After a moment, he slowly replied, "Yu Shao won."
"Yu Shao won again?"
Ying Guodong was not too surprised and said with a smile: "It seems that Yu Shao is still one step ahead?"
Zheng Qin took a puff of cigarette, a look of bewilderment on his face, and said, "But, in this game, Su Yiming played an unprecedented large-scale, complex and difficult pattern."
The corridor suddenly became extremely quiet.
"You've become humorous."
After a moment, Ying Guodong said dimly, "You mean, Su Yiming played a trick that was as difficult to solve as the Great Avalanche, the Demon Sword, and the Great Slash? And in the end, Su Yiming lost?"
Obviously, even though he felt that Zheng Qin was not the kind of person who would joke, after hearing what Zheng Qin said, Ying Guodong still didn't believe it at all.
You know, in the thousands of years of history of Go, there are countless players and masters, but over the years, only three difficult and complex patterns have been played: Big Avalanche, Demon Sword, and Big Slash!
Even if Su Yiming really came up with a new and complex pattern that was comparable to the three most difficult patterns, since this pattern had never appeared before, how could Su Yiming lose?
"It's not comparable to the Great Avalanche, the Demon Sword, or the Great Slash."
At this time, Zheng Qin was silent for a moment, and then slowly said: "It is much more complicated than the avalanche, the demon sword, and the big slope. The changes are impossible to calculate."
The corridor of the chess academy suddenly became even quieter.
Ying Guodong stared at Zheng Qin blankly, trying to see if he was joking from his face, but Zheng Qin just stood in the corridor, smoking dully without saying a word.
Sometimes, if something is outrageous, it may seem fake, but if something is too outrageous, it may seem real!
After a moment, Ying Guodong's voice trembled a little: "Zheng Qin...you, you are not kidding?"
"I may joke around in normal times, but when it comes to Go, I've never been one to joke around."
Zheng Qin took a puff of cigarette, looked at the heavy rain outside the corridor, and slowly exhaled before continuing, "Teacher Zhuang Weisheng also watched the entire game."
"I can't help but wonder, what was Mr. Zhuang Weisheng thinking after watching this game of chess?"
"If it is Mr. Zhuang Weisheng who plays the black pieces, can Mr. Zhuang Weisheng win? If it is Mr. Zhuang Weisheng who plays the white pieces, can Mr. Zhuang Weisheng win?"
"I see..."
Zheng Qin held the cigarette between his fingers, shook off the ash, paused, and continued: "I'm afraid it's not necessarily black or white, right?"
Hearing this, Ying Guodong was completely stunned.
"The Japanese chess world once said that there would be no more geniuses after Toyama Xun, but I think neither Yu Shao nor Su Yiming would be inferior to him."
Zheng Qin took another puff of his cigarette and said, "Dongshan Xun has played many world-shaking games, but the reason why Yu Shao and Su Yiming are not as good as him is simply because they have just become professional chess players, and..."
In the smoke, Zheng Qin continued slowly: "The opponent is just not strong enough."
Ying Guodong's head was buzzing and he wanted to say something, but in the end, he didn't say a word.
The opponent is not strong enough? Do you want to listen to what you are saying? They are almost reaching the title match!
"That chess game, exactly..."
After a long time, Ying Guodong finally couldn't help but ask, "What happened? What happened?"
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Zheng Qin was silent.
"The situation is too complicated, so complicated that there are countless branches every two moves, and each branch has more than dozens of complex changes."
After a long time, Zheng Qin finally spoke: "After reviewing the situation, we found that many branches would lead to slight differences after dozens of moves, but they avoided all these deteriorations."
"They played this game all the way until the 55th move, when a disagreement finally emerged between the two sides, and Su Yiming fell into a disadvantage."
"But what is shocking is that under such a situation, Su Yiming still made a series of tricks and played the strongest local response. The fight between the two sides with more than eight pieces was complicated and dazzling."
"I once thought that Yu Shao had no other options, but Yu Shao's response was also mysterious and profound. With a foolish but clever move, he finally killed the black piece in the 84th move."
"After trying a few moves, Heizi realized that the situation was hopeless, so he gave up."
"The chess game ended at the 88th move."
Hearing this, Ying Guodong couldn't help but widen his eyes and said in a lost voice: "Eighty-eight moves? It's over with eighty-eight moves? I just heard you say that there were more than eight pieces in the fight, and I thought it was two or three hundred moves!"
"Only eighty-eight hands."
Zheng Qin shook his head: "Although there are only eighty-eight moves, but this game of chess..."
Zheng Qin paused, put out his cigarette on the trash can, and suddenly let out a breath.
Zheng Qin raised his head and looked at the heavy rain. A trace of bewilderment flashed across his face, and he said slowly:
"I am outside the court, and I can see the divine plan clearly."
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Yu Shao took a taxi back home. Although he took a taxi home, the rain was heavy from the time he got off the taxi to the time he ran into the residential building. When he finally ran back to the building, his hair and clothes were completely soaked by the rain.
At this time, Yu Dongming and Cai Xiaomei were not at home. Because the hot pot restaurant had been renovated, they returned to the hot pot restaurant some time ago.
Yu Shao took a quick hot bath, changed his clothes, then walked into his bedroom, moved out a four-legged chess table, took out the chess box, and began to place his pieces.
When the game was over, although it had been reviewed once, Yu Shao still wanted to continue to analyze the game alone.
"These two tricks of Xiaofei were figured out by him..."
Yu Shao looked at the chessboard in front of him with a complicated look in his eyes.
He had played the large and complex pattern after point 33 countless times in his previous life, and had encountered it countless times, but he had never thought of this way of playing it. Su Yiming played it first before him.
"If you study the first hand of Xiao Fei in depth, you can think of it, but if you want to play the second hand of Xiao Fei without AI assistance, you can only rely on a flash of inspiration."
"His chess skills are getting stronger and stronger."
Yu Shao looked at the chessboard silently, and after a moment, he reached into the chess box.
Click.
Yu Shao picked up the chess piece and slowly put it down.
Da! Eighteen columns and nine rows, long! …………
ps: I went to the hospital for a check-up yesterday and was diagnosed with variant respiratory asthma. Today I went to the hospital again for a CT scan. Brothers, please pay more attention to your health.
(End of this chapter)
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